Ambitious working-class outsiders are TV's new villains

Recent TV dramas such as 'War' increasingly cast the ambitious lower-class outsider as the villain, a striking reversal of rags-to-riches stories from Charles Dickens to 'The Great Gatsby', an analysis argues. 'War', about a tech baron's divorce from an actor, is called a flop but a revealing snapshot of class struggle and a more fatalistic social mood.